Australian Bureau of Statistics

Is life in Australia getting better? This is one of the more complex questions that the ABS tries to answer. Doing so is very challenging because each of us has a different understanding about what’s important to both individual and national life.

In this edition of ABS Presents we look at two of the many aspects of life that we include in measuring our national progress - education and training, and the environment.

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